A couple of times now you have mentioned "engulfing line". Does this mean that you count the tail of the candle when determining if it's engulfing or not. I look at only the body when determing an engulfment.

In another forum(Oanda), someone asked me about the gaps, and whether it bothers me that there aren't any gaps in Forex. My response was:

Absence of gaps in forex doesn't really bother me. Gaps are extra forces built into other trading instruments such as stock/commodities. In forex, with its massive daily trading volume, gaps are not of necessity. I read books/ideas from Nison, Morris, and Bigalow, just to name a few to learn about candle patterns. Thanks to forex by eliminating the concept of gaps in candlestick trading. It is just made candle trading much easier.

gaps will not be a factor in Forex charts unless you are breaking up the time periods, for example terminating chart data while you are sleeping, then you will have breaking in the data. However, there are a number of formations that although can be modified to the point of not being the premium candlestick signal, the jist of the signal will be as effective. An example would be a morning star where the indecision time frame does not need to see a gap away and a gap back, just a indecisive trading day in between the two large candles.